, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
… member of the Bevan Foundation and Bridgend Lifesavers Credit Union …
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Education Maintenance Allowance
… country will deepen. The Welsh Government's response to the calls of anti-poverty campaigners such as the Bevan Foundation to uprate the EMA, both in terms of the allowance and in terms of the eligibility threshold, has …
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Education Maintenance Allowance
… have very little literature in Wales around the effects of EMA. We have fantastic work done by the Bevan Foundation. Unfortunately, a lot of it is now out of date, and that's why my office has tried …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 3
… much support. If we're thinking long-term dreaming, I know that there is a proposal from the Bevan Foundation out there around a Welsh benefits system, because I think a lot of the issues, certainly the difficulties …
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Income tax devolution
… has allowed council tax to go up significantly for years and, as the Wales Governance Centre and the Bevan Foundation have made clear time and again, council tax increases put more pressure on household budgets. It is simply …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
… will recall, perhaps, in the many reports that she's read, the speech that I gave to the Bevan Foundation last year and the statement that I made in the Chamber, which outlined a very extensive programme …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
… got the time for it now. But just on the benefits charter, I completely agree with the Bevan Foundation's approach to it, really. I think we need to be in a place where we do talk about …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
… authorities that are reluctant to change. You mentioned one possible reason for that. Dr Victoria Winckler from the Bevan Foundation told the Finance Committee that she felt that having a charter wasn't going to be strong enough …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
… for this winter. Last year, it was expanded a number of times. I and colleagues elsewhere, in the Bevan Foundation and others as well, called for it to be expanded, and they were difficult decisions that the Government …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
… the Bevan Foundation have done a great deal of work in this field. Starting with the Welsh Government, we have seen things taking a step forward since the last time the committee looked at this issue. There …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
… next section with my other colleagues. Thank you, Peter. Following on to my next questions, then, both the Bevan Foundation and Citizens Advice have called for allocations for means-tested grants funded by the Welsh Government …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
… bailiffs who weren't compliant with the protocol. So, if there's anything that either Luke or the Bevan Foundation, or indeed StepChange, want to tell us on that …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
Sorry, Chair. I'm also a member of the Bevan Foundation …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Debt and the impact of the rising cost of living: evidence session 1
… welcome our witnesses today: Peter Tutton from StepChange, Luke Young from Citizens Advice, and Steffan Evans from the Bevan Foundation. Welcome to you. Thank you very much, StepChange and Citizens Advice, for your written evidence. I'm just …
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Yes. I'm a member of the Bevan Foundation …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
… sure you will have seen the concerning statistics on deep poverty in Wales published by the Bevan Foundation this morning. The evidence is there of households having grave difficulty in affording the necessities in life—food, shelter, heat …
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 8
… per annum on top of that to increase the household income thresholds in line with those that the Bevan Foundation have recommended. That is nearly £25 million. We've already talked about some of the difficult decisions that …
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Evidence session 8
… that process, so that we have a much more cohesive and unified system. And I know that the Bevan Foundation are also leading on some separate research in this space as well, and that looks at what the …
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—evidence session 2
… with that. But the children's commissioner and anti-poverty organisations and anti-poverty researchers, such as the Bevan Foundation, have said that we've had strategy after strategy, but we need an action plan with actions tied …
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Good afternoon, Minister. I've looked at the Bevan Foundation's evidence to the Finance Committee. I'm struck by the point, and I quote, 'that short-term measures to ease cost-of-living pressures are not …